This site is an expanded and significantly upgraded version of the Flickr Commons based tool I wrote several years ago. As well as a major design/UX overhaul, it now includes data from further providers such as those available through Europeana, and also the Imperial War Museum. I'd welcome further suggestions as the harvesting tool and database are easily extendable.
For information, questions and bug reports please contact James Morley @jamesinealing | james@jamesmorley.net
The data has been harvested from providers using some custom php scripts to query respective APIs based on dates. Data is harmonised and stored in a local mySql database.
Additional jQuery plugins are used to enhance the display, including Masonry and Bootstrap Image Gallery (based on blueimp).
The code is openly licensed so please feel free to copy, modify, distribute as you please. It will be shared on Github shortly!
2nd Lieutenant Montagu Barclay Granville Proctor Beauchamp , Norfolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Arthur Holmes Gore , 1/8th Bn., Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Captain Edward Randall Cubitt. Unit: C Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, 163rd Infantry Brigade, 54th East Anglian Division. Death: 12 August 1915 Missing in action at Suvla Bay Gallipoli
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Captain Harold L I Spielmann. Unit: 10th Battalion, Manchester Regiment. Death: 12 August 1915 Killed in action at Gallipoli Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Alexander Young James , Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Aveling Francis Bell. Unit: 4th Battalion, South Wales Borderers. Death: 12 August 1915 Dardanelles
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Colonel William Morriss Armes , Suffolk Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Lieutenant Edward Gordon Williams. Unit: 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Death: 12 August 1915, aged 27, Western Front.
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant James Alexander Y Young. Unit: 1st/8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment (Isle of Wight Rifles). Death: 12 August 1915 Missing Gallipoli
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Victor Murray Cubitt. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, 163rd Infantry Brigade, 54th East Anglian Division. Death: 12 August 1915 Missing in action at Suvla Bay Gallipoli.
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Lieutenant Victor Murray Cubitt. Unit: 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment, 163rd Infantry Brigade, 54th East Anglian Division. Death: 12 August 1915 Missing in action at Suvla Bay Gallipoli.
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Private Henry Hamilton Cairns 1365, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private Walter Ballard 8/2453, Hampshire Regiment Territorial Force
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Private William Harold Buckett 8/2370, 1/8th Hamps Regiment Territorial Force
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Arthur Jack Watson 8/1805, Hampshire Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Rifleman Bertram Charles Hamilton 1157. Unit: "B" Company, 1st/8th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment. Death: 12 August 1915, missing in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, Dardanelles.
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Rifleman George Austin Rice Guy 1167. Unit: "B" Company, 1st/8th Battalion (Isle of Wight Rifles), Hampshire Regiment. Death: 12 August 1915, Suvla, Gallipoli, Dardanelles. Commemorated on the Helles Memorial.
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Edmund Maurice Buckley , Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Eric Warr Simmons. Unit: 6th Battalion, York & Lancaster Regiment. Death: 12 August 1915 Went to Suvla Bay, reported missing Gallipoli/Dardanelles
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum
Second Lieutenant Ernest Christopher Elmhirst , West Riding Regiment
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Leon Arthur Gaffney , 6th Royal Munster Fusiliers
Died 12 August 1915
Lives of the First World War
Second Lieutenant Marcus Francis Oliphant. Unit: C Company, 1st/5th Battalion, Norfolk Regiment. Death: 12 August 1915 Gallipoli
Died 12 August 1915
Imperial War Museum